L.A. Confidential

CrimeMysteryThrillerDrama
Overview : Three detectives in the corrupt and brutal L.A. police force of the 1950s use differing methods to uncover a conspiracy behind the shotgun slayings of the patrons at an all-night diner.
Budget : 35000000USD
language : en
Runtime : 138 min
Release Date : 1997-09-19
Imdb ID : tt0119488
Status : Released

Cast

Kevin Spacey
Jack Vincennes

Russell Crowe
Wendell 'Bud' White

Guy Pearce
Edmund 'Ed' Exley

James Cromwell
Dudley Smith

Kim Basinger
Lynn Bracken

Danny DeVito
Sid Hudgens

David Strathairn
Pierce Patchett

Ron Rifkin
D.A. Ellis Loew

Graham Beckel
Dick Stensland

Amber Smith
Susan Lefferts

John Mahon
Police Chief

Paul Guilfoyle
Mickey Cohen

Matt McCoy
'Badge of Honor' Star Brett Chase

Paolo Seganti
Johnny Stompanato

Simon Baker
Matt Reynolds

Elisabeth Granli
Mickey Cohen's Mambo Partner

Sandra Taylor
Mickey Cohen's Mambo Partner

Steve Rankin
Officer Arresting Mickey Cohen

Allan Graf
Wife Beater

Precious Chong
Wife

Symba
Jack's Dancing Partner

Bob Clendenin
Reporter at Hollywood Station

Lennie Loftin
Photographer at Hollywood Station

Will Zahrn
Liquor Store Owner

Darrell Sandeen
Buzz Meeks

Michael Warwick
Sid's Assistant

Shawnee Free Jones
Tammy Jordan

Matthew Allen Bretz
Officer Escorting Mexicans

Thomas Rosales Jr.
First Mexican

Shane Dixon
Officer / Detective at Hollywood Station

Norman Howell
Officer / Detective at Hollywood Station

Brian Lally
Officer / Detective at Hollywood Station

Don Pulford
Officer / Detective at Hollywood Station

Chris Short
Officer / Detective at Hollywood Station

Tomas Arana
Breuning - Dudley's Guy

Michael McCleery
Carlisle - Dudley's Guy

George Yager
Gangster at Victory Motel

Jack Conley
Vice Captain

Ginger Slaughter
Secretary in Vice

Jack Knight
Detective at Detective Bureau

John H. Evans
Patrolman at Nite Owl Cafe

Gene Wolande
Forensic Chief

Brian Bossetta
Forensic Officer

Michael Chieffo
Coroner

Gwenda Deacon
Mrs. Lefferts

T.J. Kennedy
Bud's Rejected Partner

Ingo Neuhaus
Jack's Rejected Partner

Robert Harrison
Pierce Patchett’s Bodyguard

Jim Metzler
City Councilman

Robert Barry Fleming
Boxer

Jeremiah Birkett
Ray Collins - Nite Owl Suspect

Salim Grant
Louis Fontaine - Nite Owl Suspect

Karr Washington
Ty Jones - Nite Owl Suspect

Noel Evangelisti
Stenographer

Marisol Padilla Sánchez
Inez Soto - Rape Victim

Jeff Sanders
Sylvester Fitch

Steven Lambert
Roland Navarette

Jordan Marder
Officer at Detective Bureau

Gregory White
Mayor

April Breneman
Look-Alike Dancer

Lisa Worthy
Look-Alike Dancer

Beverly Sharpe
Witness on Badge of Honor

Colin Mitchell
Reporter at Hospital

John Slade
Photographer at Hospital

Brenda Bakke
Lana Turner

Kevin Maloney
Frolic Room Bartender

Patrice Walters
Police File Clerk

Rebecca Klingler
Police File Clerk

Irene Roseen
D.A. Ellis Loew's Secretary

Scott Eberlein
West Hollywood Sheriff's Deputy

David St. James
Detective at Hush-Hush Office

Bodie Newcomb
Officer at Hush-Hush Office

Jeff Austin
Detective

Robert Foster
Detective

Kevin Patrick Kelly
Detective

Henry Marder
Detective

Monty McKee
Detective

Henry Meyers
Detective

Michael Ossmann
Detective

Dick Stilwell
Detective

Jess Thomas
Detective

Robert Thompson
Detective

Jody Wood
Detective

Jimmy Ortega
Second Mexican (uncredited)

Nectar Rose
Marilyn Monroe (uncredited)

Rocco Salata
Uniformed Patrol Officer (uncredited)

Dell Yount
Court Bailiff (uncredited)

Scott McKinley
Cop (uncredited)

Gilbert Rosales
Third Mexican (uncredited)

J.P. Romano
Deuce Perkins (uncredited)

Chris Palermo
Anthony Trombino (uncredited)

April Audia
Mayor's Wife (uncredited)

Priscilla Cory
Brunette Police Woman (uncredited)

Fred Lerner
Dudley's Guy with Shotgun (uncredited)

Anne Zogby
Movie Star (uncredited)

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Reviews

John Chard
City of Angels? More Like City of Demons! Curtis Hanson directs and co-adapts the screenplay with Brian Helgeland from legendary pulp novelist James Ellroy's novel. It stars Kevin Spacey, Russell Crowe, Guy Pearce, James Cromwell, Kim Basinger, Danny DeVito and David Strathairn. Music is by Jerry Goldsmith and cinematography by Dante Spinotti. It's 1950s Los Angeles and three cops of very different morals and stature are about to be entwined in crime and corruption... I admire you as a policeman, particularly your adherence to violence as a necessary adjunct to the job. Tremendous film making. Hanson takes Ellroy's labyrinthine story and pumps it with period authenticity and seamless direction, the latter of which sees him garner superlative performances from the cast. This is the side of Los Angeles nobody wants to talk about, it's awash with corpses, hookers, seedy set-ups, violence, drugs, racism and corruption a go-go. And that's just involving the politicians, the press and the coppers! Rollo Tomasi. The absence of genuine heroes on show still further keeps "The City of Angels" covered in dark clouds, where even as the plot twists and turns, as the mysteries unravel and brutality unfurls, the final destination of the principal characters is never clear, thus there's a continuing edge of seat pulse beat within the pic. It's also sexy and dangerous, the dialogue sharper than a serpent's tooth, and while the ending is a little too cosy as opposed to original noir wave conventions, this is pure noir in all but black and white photography. It won only two Academy Awards, Basinger for Best Actress in a Supporting Role and for Hanson and Hegeland for Best Writing - Screenplay Based on Material Previously Produced or Published. Frankly it should have won a dozen or so for it's not just one of the best films of the 1990s, but also one of the best Neo-Noirs ever produced. 10/10
Geronimo1967
After the seemingly indiscriminate slaughter of the folks at a diner, it's the ambitious "Exley" (Guy Pearce) who suggests to his bosses that it's time for the LAPD to get it's act together and root out the corruption endemic within the force. To that end, he is promoted by "Capt. Smith" (James Cornwall) and sets about trying to assert a bit more of the rule of law rather than the rule of vengeance - that'd be the "White" (Russell Crowe) method, or the more venal and sleazy fashion of "Vincennes" (Kevin Spacey). Needless to say, nobody takes kindly to this new pure as the driven snow approach, but gradually "Exley" starts to make a bit of headway into the world of organised crime, and to realise just how involved the police are in covering up crimes from fraud to murder. He's also aware that someone is pulling his strings, so some sort of rapport with one of his suspicions colleagues is going to have to be forged if he is to stay alive! Each of these characters get their moment in the sun and that allows us to meet the unscrupulous red-top publisher "Hudgens" (an energetic Danny DeVito) and the sophisticated call-girl "Lynn" (Kim Basinger) who is quite often pretending to be Veronica Lake! I think my only problem with this film was that I reckoned on who was doing what really early on, so the jeopardy was a little bit compromised. That said, though, it's one of Crowe's more natural performances and Pearce shows us he can deliver gritty and bruising parts well too. I could have been doing with a little more of Basinger's quite intriguing character, just to break up the relentlessness of the story a bit more, but it's a solid adaptation of James Ellroy's uncompromising book that Curtis Hanson presents and it doesn't hang about.

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